NEIL SEMER

Neil Semer teaches voice and gives workshops internationally. His main voice studio is in New York. He teaches regularly also in Toronto, London, Paris, Basel, and throughout Germany. In July-August 2018 he will lead the 22nd annual Neil Semer Summer Vocal Institute in Meissen, Germany.

His teaching combines the old Italian School of Bel Canto as described by Giovanni Battista Lamperti with understanding of vocal function. The focus is coordination of the heart, mind and body.

His students sing leading roles in the most important opera houses around the world and star in Broadway productions. In July 2004, he was the keynote speaker and master teacher for the Australian National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Convention in Sydney.

Masterclasses given around the world include the Vancouver Opera, the 5th International Congress of Voice Teachers in Helsinki, the first three Annual International Classical Singer Conventions, the Royal Academy of Music and the Association of English Singers and Speakers in London, two National Conventions of the National Association of German Singing Teachers (Hamburg and Wurzburg), the Leipzig, Hannover and Wurzburg Hochschules, Swiss Voice Teachers Association in Zurich, Australian NATS Chapters in Sydney and Brisbane, Queensland and Newcastle Conservatoriums, two Canadian Voice Care Foundation Symposia in Toronto and Banff, NATS National Convention in Seattle, NATS Winter and Summer Workshops in Miami, Princeton, Minneapolis and New York, NATS New England, Mid-Atlantic and Central Regional Conferences, NATS Chapters in Calgary, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Wisconsin, Orlando, Salt Lake City, Michigan and Miami, and innumerable universities.

Faculties have included the Canadian Opera Company, American Institute of Musical Studies (AIMS) in Austria, and New England and Boston Conservatories.